George Dashiell Bayard

George Dashiell Bayard (18 December 1835-14 December 1862) was a Brigadier-General in the US Army who commanded the cavalry of the Union III Corps during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.

Biography
George Dashiell Bayard was born in Seneca Falls, New York in 1835, the grandson of John Bayard, and his family later moved to Iowa. He graduated from West Point in 1856 as a US Army cavalry lieutenant, and he fought against Native Americans in Kansas and Colorado from 1856 to 1861, being shot in the face by a Kiowa arrow on 11 July 1860 and suffering considerable pain for months. On 27 August 1861, he was made colonel of a Pennsylvania cavalry regiment, and he was promoted to Brigadier-General on 28 April 1862 and given command of the cavalry of III Corps. He fought at the Battle of Port Republic during the Valley Campaign, and he missed the Battle of Antietam due to pain from his previous war wound. On 13 December 1862, he was struck in the leg by a piece of Confederate artillery shrapnel during the Battle of Fredericksburg, and he died a day later of uncontrolled bleeding just days before his 27th birthday.